Thu 25 Apr 2002
This reporting/charting database is suddenly becoming truly potential. Stu Lancaster mailed me today with more input - a much more slick way of doing this being to use XML and SVG. Which is precisely what a colleagure of his did after reading this article. His boss must be a happy man ;o)
If you haven't got the plugin already you can get it from Adobe's SVG site. Notice that you can view the source. Wow. Expect to see me talk more about this soon...
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Wed 24 Apr 2002
A few more thanks:
To Alex Hernandez for reminding me about Robocode. Anything that makes learning Java fun can't be bad can it. I've not tried it yet but I really should. My problem being that I can easily go and write Agents/Servlets in Java that work but don't really know things like why I can't cast that Long to an int (bad example, sorry). What I mean to say is that I feel I need to understand the language from the ground up. Then I can feel sure that the code I wrote is not going to be laughed at by the professionals...
Also to Anthony Thomas who has added his own twists to the idea that Warren suggested on the 16th of this month. He also found another article on the subject and sent me a demo DB. This really could become something special. If only there were 25 hours in a day.
And to Wolfgang Flamme for all his mail this week about the hole he has found in the way we all develop our "secure" databases. There's a thread growing on NotesTips.com and an article soon to appear here. Right now I'm not sure what to make of it all. All I would say is PLEASE STOP TRYING TO HACK THIS SITE. There's nothing here that you can't already see. All you do is waste bandwidth, which costs ME money.
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Mon 22 Apr 2002
If you don't read Scott Andrew already, you really should. It's the little gems like this that keep me going back for more.
One of my major problems is that I don't suffer fools gladly. Little things tend to annoy me more than they should (on Mondays in particular). I try to keep these feelings hidden, although it's always nice to know I'm not the only one. Will he forgive me breaking his law of Sunday the 21st.
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Fri 19 Apr 2002
Matt Clarke noticed today that IBM have "fixed" their site. I'm not impressed with the way they solved the empty search box. Try pressing the search button at top of this page without typing in the search box. Notice that the form is submitted and then told to go back a page. This is what us Domino developers were doing in '97 when JavaScript was even less well-known than it is now.
Looking at the nerdy plates people in America have on their cars I thought of some nerdy ones for British Domino developers. How about R5 CLP or R5 NSF? Hey, it's Friday. If anybody fancies a friday-challenge have a go at writing a regular expression to validate a British car registration (pre-2001).
To me, the measure of this site's success is that it's ranked third by Google in their Notes Development directory. Only got DominoCafe to beat now. Shouldn't be too hard.
Google's Page Rank is based on the Open Directory Project. The beauty of this directory being that you can't buy your way in there. I'm honoured to be listed at the top of their Notes Development directory and with a gold star too. I'm also listed in the JavaScript directory. I dread to think what a true web-developer must think when they arrive here looking for JavaScripts - "Domino, what's that?"
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Thu 18 Apr 2002
Some messages of thanks:
To NotesTips' Mike for pointing out that yesterday's ~;o) emoticon (mental note: must stop using them so much!) looked a lot like my namesake from the Tweenies.
To Jason Collier of the Domino SiteAtlas for pointing that I should practice what I preach and do something about this. Not that you can do any harm... I don't see what all the fuss is with the $DefaultNav "issue". If you design your apps properly it shouldn't be an issue.
To David Frahm for pointing me to Microsoft's SharePoint technology. Lotus beware, they can support a huge 75 users ;-) Damn, there's another one.
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